Summary
- Barbados PM sends get well wishes to UK leader via Facebook.
- Mia Mottley in recovery after successful medical procedure last weekend.
- Boris Johnson admitted to hospital on Sunday.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottle has joined a long list of world leaders sending get well wishes to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Johnson was admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital in central London with “persistent symptoms” of COVID-19 on Sunday and was moved to intensive care on Monday evening after his symptoms worsened.
“The Government and people of Barbados wish Boris Johnson a speedy recovery,” Mottley wrote on Facebook Tuesday.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with you, your family and the British people at this time.”
Mottley is also in recovery after a successful medical procedure over the weekend.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said he is “confident” Johnson will recover from coronavirus, describing the prime minister as a “fighter.”
Raab, who is deputising for the PM, said the prime minister was receiving standard oxygen treatment and breathing without any assistance, such as mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory support.
Amid questions about what his role will entail, the foreign secretary said he was standing in for the prime minister “whenever necessary,” including leading the daily meetings of the coronavirus “war cabinet.”
Raab, who chaired the government’s daily coronavirus meeting on Tuesday, said he had “total confidence” in the arrangements Johnson had put in place.
“Well first of all, decision making by government is made by collective cabinet responsibilities, so that is the same as before,” the foreign secretary said.
“But we’ve got very clear directions, very clear instructions from the prime minister, and we’re focused with total unity and total resolve on implementing them so that when he’s back, I hope in very short order, we will have made the progress that he would expect and that the country would expect.”
Earlier, Buckingham Palace said the Queen had sent a message to Johnson’s family and his partner, Carrie Symonds, saying she was thinking of them, and wished the PM a full and speedy recovery.
Prince William also tweeted a personal message of sympathy to the PM’s family, signing it off with his initial “W”, while his father, the Prince of Wales, sent a message from himself and the Duchess of Cornwall wishing Johnson a “speedy recovery”, Clarence House said.
